Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

What mare's nest hast thou found?

What mare's nest hast thou found?

Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall read more

Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall presume to prophesy their date,
Where nought is certain save the uncertainty of fate?
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,

A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.

A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.

Nothing is thought rare
Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know
That what was worn read more

Nothing is thought rare
Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know
That what was worn some twenty years ago
Comes into grace again.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.

Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.